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My friends and I have spent decades chasing trout all over the wooded valleys of our home waters and on some fun destination trips. I always say that if you spend enough time on the water, you’ll find everything you need out there. Jokingly, I say that about fishing gear. You’ll find nets, tippet posts loaded with tippet, hemostats, nippers and even full fly boxes . . . just by fishing a lot.

You’ll also find all the techniques necessary, with time on the water, a willingness to solve the mystery and with good attention to detail.

So we’ve all had the similar experiences like that. We’ve all found a bunch of nets, and we’ve all stumbled upon deep river knowledge — things like what it actually takes to get a true dead drift on a dry fly in a soft edge seam next to some fast current.

But when you fish long enough, you also encounter the special things, the unique things, the stuff that maybe only you’ve seen, you’ve heard or maybe you’ve felt out there.

So we want to share a few of those river stories tonight. Some are funny and others might teach a lesson.

My friends Austin Dando, Bill Dell, Trevor Smith and Josh Darling join me for a fun conversation.
RESOURCES
PODCAST: Troutbitten | Freewheelin' S19, Ep10
PODCAST: Troutbitten | Freewheelin' S5, Ep7
PODCAST: Troutbitten | Freewheelin' S1, Ep7

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This podcast is all about about your waders — wader care and wader repair. You might think that if you take care of your waders, they’ll last forever, but that's surely not true.
My son Aiden asked to loan a pair of my old waders to a friend the other day for a fishing trip. And I said, "sure, but they all leak." Every pair of waders I’ve ever had has ended with leaks.
Waders are like anything else. Nothing lasts forever, but you can absolutely lengthen a wader's lifespan by taking care of them. Things like washing your waders, turning them inside out when it matters, and just being careful about what you’re walking through extends the life of waders significantly.
All of us in this conversation have been fishing long enough to have gone through many, many waders. We’ve also been in the game long enough to know how to patch waders. I’m constantly surprised by how many anglers tell me they got a pinhole in their waders, so they sent them back. That’s not how it used to be. Every die hard angler that I knew used to have a good supply of Aquaseal and they knew how to use it.
So here are our thoughts and experiences about taking care of your breathable waders and patching them effectively when the inevitable happens.
My friends Austin Dando, Bill Dell and Josh Darling join me for a good conversation about landing nets and carrying methods.

RESOURCES
ARTICLE: Troutbitten | Critical Wader Care - Advice From the Companies Themselves
VIDEO: Troutbitten | Waders On, Waders Off - Stop Wasting Fishing Time
PODCAST: Troutbitten | Gear Fixes S15, Ep7
PODCAST: Tech Talk About Boots, Waders and More - In Deep With Kevin Sloan - S19, Ep7

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This one is all about fishing nets. We cover net types and sizes, handle length, bag depth and hoop width. We also discuss how each of us carries the net and how we access it quickly. Because if all of this is not well thought out, problems are sure to follow.
The truth is, the net is one of the heaviest and most cumbersome pieces of gear we have out there. So for the frequent angler, these decisions about where to carry that weight and how to have the net ready for a quick draw and an easy return are fundamental to a smooth system.
The net choice and how you carry it should not  be an afterthought. In fact, you just might base other gear decisions around your net requirements.
My friends Austin Dando, Bill Dell and Josh Darling join me for a good conversation about landing nets and carrying methods.
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My friends are here with me to begin season twenty-one with a conversation about doing the opposite. Because if you’re struggling out there on the water, if the net hasn’t been wet in a while and the trout seem to disagree with everything you suggest, then maybe you should do the opposite.
To quote Jerry Seinfeld’s advice to George . . . “If every instinct you have is wrong, the opposite would have to be right.”
My friends Austin Dando, Bill Dell, Josh Darling and Trevor Smith join me for a fun look at making decisions that can really change things.
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For this season finale of our skills series on fighting fish we take questions and comments from the podcast audience. We cover the following:

-- Fighting and landing big trout in small streams.
-- Fighting trout in shallow water, and keeping them down.
-- Drag settings.
-- Strip sets.
-- Landing two fish at the same time.
-- How location and water type affects decisions.
-- Cranking the reel vs pumping the rod.
-- More on rod choice.

My friends Matt Grobe and Bill Dell to wrap up this season.

Here's the Episode List for Season 20

1. The Hook Set and What Comes First
2. Where to Fight Them (Water Column and More)
3. Fight Them Fast (You Pull or They Pull - Work With a Trout)
4. The Fighting Position
5. Side Pressure
6. The Last Ten Feet (The Finishing Moves)
7. Wrap Up 
Resources
CATEGORY: Troutbitten | Catch and Release Safely
CATEGORY | Troutbitten | Fighting Fish
ARTICLE | Troutbitten | Fighting Fish -- The Last Ten Feet
VIDEO | Troutbitten | The Casting, Drifting and Fighting Position - It's All the Same
PODCAST: Troutbitten | How to Handle a Trout
ARTICLE: Troutbitten | Are We Taking the Safety of Trout Too Far?
READ: Troutbitten | Work With a Trout and Not Against It
ARTICLE: Troutbitten | Fight Fish Fast
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